What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? Mitch Rafferty would…and now he’s going to have to.
As a hard-up landscape gardener, Mitch struggles to believe a phone call he gets, demanding two million dollars for the safe return of his beloved (and pregnant) wife, Holly. He starts to believe, however, when the kidnappers blow the head off a man walking a dog across the street and leave him to it with a final warning; if he goes to the police, they’ll cut out her eyes and tongue, then leave her to die. So begins his nightmare journey to find two million dollars in a matter of days…
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The online retail industry is booming. Already worth over £14 billion and growing at a rate of over 12% every year, the industry is led by the huge markets for of clothes and electronics, though this doesn’t necessarily accurately reflect sales. After all, a single TV can sell for £1000, whereas used books frequently sell for pence – even for free if the buyer pays for post and package!
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A biography of Camus and the tale of a boy who knows exactly when the world is going to end; this month we can expect the release of two very different books, which both investigate the deeper meaning behind life in their own way.
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James Patterson, thriller writer of Along Came a Spider and
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Here are a couple of books due to be released this month that I’m interested to read this month – how about you?
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Today we ask consider whether the Anne Frank Trust’s is right to object to Annexed; a fictional work by Sharon Dongar, which makes use of the characters of Anne Frank and Peter van Pels. Told as a series of diary entries and thoughts from Peter, Annexed is an interpretation of the time he spent with the Franks, his discovery and subsequent time in a concentration camp.
These days, there are hundreds of thousands of people publishing their written work in some form or another. Be it in physical books, magazines and newspapers, or e-books, blogs, online articles and websites, the written word is now publicised in more forms than ever before. Although this is a great step for civilisation, it does make it very hard for any writer to get themselves noticed.
Not everybody who is interested in writing books necessarily knows how to go about doing so. Today we provide a basic guide to starting to write a generic informative book; not so our readers can earn themselves a Nobel Prize for Literature, but so they can get to grips with the basics of writing.
Writing e-books is becoming an increasingly popular way for amateur and small-time writers to publicise their material. However, for this very reason, it is now harder than ever to get your e-books noticed or, more importantly, to make any money from your enterprise.
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Today we bring you news of some more books that are due to be release this month, in preparation for the lazy summer days.
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